Stowaway

By Bob Englehart

My wife and I have flown in and out of Mineta San Jose International Airport many times. We had family living in Santa Cruz for 15 years and the airport was more convenient, closer and easier to manage than San Francisco. Now there’s a big question mark over the whole facility. What I fail to understand is if airport security had this stowaway captured on video climbing over the fence and running across the tarmac, why didn’t they send a patrol to investigate? Unless....unless they didn’t see him. Because....because they were sound asleep. Is that possible?

Of course it’s possible. It happened at night. Authorities have long been concerned about security around our airport perimeters and now we see why. The San Jose airport has fences all around, but in many places there’s no barbed wire and they’re easy to climb. It’s amazing this kid made it to Hawaii alive and well. It should also be amazing he made it across the tarmac to the wheel well in the first place.